Or at least it is between the months of August through to May. The rest of the time I may feel able to write about something other than a not especially successful football team.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Recently

Kev W took up the challenge of the Digital Detox and he switched off the tele, internet, X-boxes etc for an entire week. No e-mail for seven days? Heaven or hell? Discuss.

Anyway, this is just a very brief post on the off chance that anyone has noticed I haven't been around to say - no, the relegation blues has not resulted in me being carried off to the local funny farm. (You can tell I am a social worker by my empathetic attitude to those of us suffering with mental illness.)

I am almost tempted to say 'If only' as that experience may have been more interesting than the reason for my self imposed internet exile.I have in fact been on study leave doing the most boring, mind dulling assignment ever devised by any university anywhere.I didn't dare switch on the internet or the damn thing would never ever have got done.

It isn't finished - but it is nearly there. But I have tried to avoid the net, tele etc for three days. Kev did it for a week -and he wasn't even away in some remote outpost of this planet... and no, English Persons - Edinburgh is NOT a remote outpost of this planet.

I can't see you ditching the tele whilst there is any chance one Mr Tennant will appear on it Lisa!

Jay - any living breathing woman would understnd your addiction - as would quite a lot of men I feel!

Kev - I think what you did was brilliant. The way our lives can revolve around technology is terrifying, but I know on occassions when our computer at home goes wrong the first couple of days without it are hell, but then suddenly we get our lives back for a while.

Nope I wouldn't give up the TV just in case a certain Mr Tennant comes on ;) I love the internet but I can cope without it. I can also cope without my mobile phone but do feel a bit lost without it when out of the house. However if I was on holiday I wouldn't go online or take my mobile and would be incommunicado the whole time.

I've been inadvertantly doing a low tech few weeks as the weather has been so nice that I've been out in the garden or on the fells. We have such beautiful long light evenings up here so I've only watched a couple of things on TV and had to do some work on the computer- but that was it. And mobile phone reception is so patchy round here that I usually forget to have my phone switched on anyway.

About Me

Formerly known as Just Jane, but with a blog move carried out in haste I managed to end up with a blog nickname I hate..J bloody J. Oh well, too late to do anything about it now. Call me what you will. So apart from a stupid title I have three off spring, one very special bloke, lots of friends, a great family, a job I love and a rubbish football team who I love too. I also have a tendency to go on abit.....you have been warned.